West Germany,
1987, 108 min
(Alternative: 95 min)
Directed by:
Percy AdlonScreenplay:
Percy AdlonCinematography:
Bernd HeinlComposer:
Bob TelsonCast:
Marianne Sägebrecht, CCH Pounder, Jack Palance, Christine Kaufmann, Monica Calhoun, George Aguilar, Ray Young, Apesanahkwat, Darron Flagg, G. Smokey Campbell (more)Plots(1)
A fat Bavarian tourist (Marianne Sagebrecht) is dumped by her husband in the Arizona Desert and arrives, on foot and overdressed, at a truck-stop called the Bagdad Cafe. There she finds friendship with the initially irritable black owner (CCH Pounder) and something like romance with the resident weirdo artist (Jack Palance). (Arrow Films)
(more)Reviews (1)
With its diverse characters, tense situations and lots of interesting inserted cuts, Badgad Café offers
a funny and sweet clash of cultures at an inconspicuous motel in the Nevada desert. Watching this
movie with a cosmopolitan audience at the beach cinema in Cannes felt like a very pleasant
celebration of life through film. [Cannes]
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